this old haunt


a new musical
Created by Maggie Kane, Rebecca Wahls, and SMJ
Music and Lyrics by Maggie Kane
Book by SMJ
Additional Music and Orchestrations by Dillon Feldman

DEVELOPMENT HISTORY:
October 2024: NYC Concert Premiere at The Green Room 42

January 2024:

  • Two songs performed at NEW MUSICALS MIXTAPE, presented by the Latiné Musical Theatre Lab and Prospect Theatre Company

  • 29-hour workshop at Tisch New Theatre (NYU)


Fall 2023: Latiné Musical Theatre Lab's Julia De Burgos Cohort, NYC
November 2022: Academic Production at Carnegie Mellon University
July 2022: Staged reading at Fort Salem Theatre in Salem, NY

 

NEWS

this old haunt’s opening number “storm chaser” is a finalist for Write Out Loud and will be featured in concert at 54 Below

this old haunt was named a finalist for the 2024 New Musical Project.

Read: this old haunt team is one of twelve teams of writers for the Latiné Musical Theatre Lab’s 2023 Julia de Burgos Cohort.

this old haunt has been selected to appear in the 2023 Musical Theatre Educators’ Alliance’s New Works Collaboration Catalog (NWCC)

Read: Mason School of Theater Alumni Collaborate on Musical at Carnegie Mellon

Listen: WQED Voice of the Arts Podcast: Rebecca Wahls, SMJ, and Maggie Marie Rodgers

Broadway World Regional Award, Runner Up: Best New Play or Musical, Central New York (for Fort Salem workshop)

Latiné Musical Theatre Lab & Prospect Theater Company’s IGNITE Concert Series Present NEW MUSICALS MIXTAPE: Adelina Mitchell, Jade Jones
NYC

Fort Salem Theatre Reading 2022: Rita Castagna, Ceara Ledwith, Brittany Martz, and Kayla Zanakis
Photography: Michael Hatzel
Salem, NY

 

GOOD


a play / slash / concert (and also a fable)
written and directed by Rebecca Wahls after The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht, Margarete Steffin and Ruth Berlau

DEVELOPMENT HISTORY:

2025: Duke University developmental production

2022: Carnegie Mellon University Director Generator